The Arctic territory has issued a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French consortium.

Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.

The permit granted to Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) to extract anorthosite follows interest in the Arctic territory from Donald Trump in acquiring the island.

GAM, which is backed by French company Jean Boulle Group and real estate investment firms bodies from Denmark and Greenland, was granted a 30-year permit, Reuters reported.

  • hefejefe@lemm.eeEnglish
    65·
    19 days ago

    I would be applauding more if I wasn’t so embarrassed to be American right now.

    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      19 days ago

      don’t be embarrassed to be an american. be proud. let that pride show. you’ve got one of the most beautiful countries on the planet. fight for her.

        • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          34·
          19 days ago

          i’m canadian - a bit too proudly so. our family moved to nashville back in 1993 and then back to canada in 1999, so you could say i spent most of my formative years down there. i went to Overton HS, and i had some of the best teachers i could ever have wished for - even looking back now.

          and canada isn’t as friendly as they say it is, either. it’s more passive-aggressive than friendly. matchbox 20 is horrible, and the tragically hip is overrated. i even saw them live in studio from like 20 feet a way. good band, but not national treasure territory.

          ed

          • bluetoque@lemmy.caEnglish
            6·
            19 days ago

            You picked this thread to shit on the Tragically Hip? Sorry, I am just being passive aggressive I guess.

            • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              18 days ago

              i honestly don’t know why the fuck i chose to write all that stuff in this thread, but i still mean it all. i’ve seen better bar blues bands, and gordie’s whine really gets grating after a few songs. i’m glad we seem to agree on M20 at least :P

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    19 days ago

    It’s almost like repeatedly bullying and threatening a nation makes them less likely cut a deal with you. Weird.

    • D_C@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      18 days ago

      You just don’t understand the fart of the deal.

      Whoops, I meant art of the steal.

      Oh, ffs. I meant Angry Old Orange Rapist TurdNugget is a fucking imbecile. Phew, finally got there in the end.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      423·
      19 days ago

      Isn’t Greenland just part of Denmark? Why would Europeans doing mineral exploration in Europe hurt America?

      I mean, would Alaska’s governor opening up more of the wildlife refugee for US industrial exploitation be a “blow to Olaf Schultz”?

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    19 days ago

    Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.

    It’s called aluminium.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      19 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorthosite

      The primary economic value of anorthosite bodies is the titanium-bearing oxide ilmenite. However, some Proterozoic anorthosite bodies have large amounts of labradorite, which is quarried for its value as both a gemstone and a building material. Archean anorthosites, because they are aluminium-rich, have large amounts of aluminium substituting for silicon; a few of these bodies are mined as ores of aluminium

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          19 days ago

          Aluminium is found on Earth primarily in rocks in the crust, where it is the third-most abundant element, after oxygen and silicon, rather than in the mantle, and virtually never as the free metal. It is obtained industrially by mining bauxite, a sedimentary rock rich in aluminium minerals.

          But these guys are getting it from anorthosite, which is an interesting variation of industrial trends.

          • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            19 days ago

            Oh, you responded to the comment saying it’s aluminium, not aluminum, so I thought you were referring to that.

  • Bravo@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    13·
    19 days ago

    I have to wonder: if headlines didn’t specifically point out how this is a snub to Trump, would Trump even notice shit like this happening? Or understand its negative implications for him? Sometimes it feels like the news media is intentionally trying to get him riled up.